Navigation, proposal for opening the Isthmus of Panama, 499
News of the week, Domestic, 425, 441, 442, 457,
475, 476, 503, 520, 544, 552, 573, 585, 601, 622, 632, 649, 685, 701, 712, 716, 729, 732, 745, 780, 793, 811, 824, 827
News of the week, Foreign, 424, 439, 455, 472, 473, 474, 486, 492, 507, 522, 554, 569, 586, 605, 621, 631, 651, 667, 672, 684, 696, 716, 727, 744, 763, 775, 797, 825
Cattle, salt for, 676-diseases of, 774, 790 Cholera Morbus, account of, 452, 453, 468, 469, 488, 501, 504, 505, 508, 533, 549, 613, 633, 681, 684, 700, 721, 729-receipt for cure of, 485 Orchards, advantages derived from, 822 Columbia College, account of distribution of medals, 622
Payne, J. H., dinner to, 753
Perkins' Steam Stove, account of, 528 Potatoes, method of culture of, 630-rules for housing and preserving of, 743 Posts for Fences, new plan of erecting, 780 Press, writing for the, Lord Lyndhurst's opi- nion of, 485
Advocate, newspaper, discontinuance of, 421 Iron, duties on, remitted, 547
Car, self-regulating, account of, 579, 593 In France, from St. Etienne to Lyons, 531 Stockton to Darlington, 418
Manchester and Liverpool, 467, 476, 689 Cromford and Peak Forest, 497 Sirhoway, 497
Glamorganshire, 531 Hetton, 531
Brunton and Shields, 531 London and Dover, 721
Portsmouth and Roanoke, 421, 769 Central, 421, 563, 610, 692 Williamsport and Elmyra, 421, 593 Boston to Long Island Sound, 432 Generally, 433, 434, 449 Chilicothe, 435 Transportation, generally, 435, 450, 451, 465 Experiments on, by J. Randell, engineer to Frenchtown and Newcastle Company, 449 Saratoga and Schenectady, 465, 577 Baltimore and Ohio, 450, 568, 580, 657, 660, 691, 710, 722, 754, 804, 818 Frenchtown and Newcastle, 485 Importance of, 449-for shipping purposes,
Brooklyn and Jamaica, 500, 689, 690 For transporting cattle in South Carolina, 50 Across the Isthmus of Panama, 514 Charleston, 515 Susquehanna, 516, 593
Chesapeake and Ohio, 517, 580
Rochester and Erie, 545 Description of motive power on, Boston and Ordenburg, 547 Taylorsville, 548
Paterson and Hoboken, 417
Harlæm, 417, 561
Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown,
New-York and Erie, 418, 449, 481, 513
Boston and Providence, 562, 786
On the elevation of rails for, 564
Winchester (Va.) to Boston and Providence, 563
Boston and Worcester, 577
Saratoga and Fort Edward, 577
Connecticut, 577
Dansville and Rochester, 579
Petersburg and Roanoke, engine for, 579 Long Island, 593
Leicester and Swannington, 594 Mad River and Erie, 609, 621 North Carolina, 610, 629, 642 Sandusky, 610
Worcester and New-London, 610 Hudson and Mohawk, 612, 780 Camden and Amboy, 626, 640 Delaware and Hudson, 640 Advantages of, 643, 659, 674
Alleghany and Portage, 645 Rochester, 645
Baltimore and Washington, 674
Baltimore and Susquehanna, 674
West Feliciana, 693
New-York and Erie, 705
Western, 705, 770
Reviews of the week, 437, 442, 454, 470, 486, 502, 518, 534, 550, 570, 582, 598, 603, 617, 634, 647, 666, 682, 698, 713, 730, 746, 761, 778, 798,814, 831
Road Making, M'Adam's plan, 498, 513, 529, 530, 563, 595, 676, 740, 756, 773, 787, 903
Steam carriages on common roads, 417, 481, 500, 556, 612, 693—Goldsmith Gurney's ex- amination in the House of Commons upon, 482-Ogle's, 658, 721-Hancock's, 737, 738 Steamboats for rapid and shallow rivers, (Sul- livan's,) 465-iron, 742-despatch of, 497 Steam engine, improved, 516-another, 545- Davis & Gartner's, 548-on ascending planes (Berrian's), 625-by locomotion, 594—ma- chinery to be attached to, 597-James', 673 Steam cannon, Perkins', 528 Steam boilers, explosion of, 628 Silk, history of, 646-culture of, 663, 667, 091 Soils, method of adapting plants to, 791 Strawberries, on the culture of, 630
Tulips, method of cultivating, 807 Tornado in the Valley of the Mississippi, 810
Vine, origin, nature, and culture of, 589, 599, 597, 616, 709, 744, 806
W. Washington, statue of, 636 West-Point Military Academy, report of board of visitors at, 457
Wine, American, directions for making, 677 Wheels of carriages, Forrester's patent, 772 Williams, J. S., prospectus of his proposed work on road making, 816
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